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Joining us LIVE today:
- Bhanu Pratap Singh Tanwar (@_bpst) and Harshvardhan Chhangani (@hvchhangani), Co-Founders of Interact Group (@_frndapp)
- Devender Bindal (@devenderbindal), Co-Founder & CTO of Truefan AI (@TrueFanAI)
LIVE at 4 PM.
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Anthropic onboarding day: Michael Scott introducing Karpathy like he just signed Wemby in free agency.
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4 thoughts on early-stage hiring:
1/ If an engineer is trying to pick between a pre Series-B company and a BigCo/BigLab --> stop talking to them immediately. They are clearly not ready for a startup.
2/ If someone isn't willing to take a 70% cash paycut (relative to BigCo/BigLab) --> stop talking to them immediately. They will be unhappy/stressed.
3/ You learn a lot about a candidate during the negotiation/closing process. Do not be afraid to walk away if you get new information.
4/ Startups have zero work-life balance. If you are not willing to put in the hours, you are not in the right headspace to grind.
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30 India consumer app insights :
> India drove ~20% of global gen-AI downloads in 2025, but only ~1% of AI app IAP revenue.
> Gen-AI app downloads in India jumped from 198M in 2024 to 602M in 2025.
> The first mass AI habit is image creation, editing, avatars, filters, and shareable content.
> Digital astrology users are 60.3% women.
> 63% of female astrology users are under 30.
> Nearly 70% of women’s astrology consultations are about marriage or relationships.
> Where Is My Train got 50% of installs through Bluetooth sharing inside trains.
> Instamart had one condom pack in every 127 orders in 2025.
> Condom orders on Instamart spiked 24% in September 2025.
> FRND recorded 285M+ conversations and 418M minutes of voice-led companionship in 2025.
> 92% of FRND engagement came from outside Tier 1 regions.
> 95% of FRND’s new users came from non-metro and remote regions.
> FRND users sent 974M virtual gifts in 2025. Rose and chai were the most popular.
> FRND’s longest call was 1,247 minutes.
> India became the world’s #1 short-drama download market with 21.07M installs in one month.
> Short-drama plots are fantasy fulfilment in 60 seconds. Billionaire romance, revenge marriage, hidden heirs, sudden status jumps.
> Kuku TV reportedly skews 90%+ male.
> 9 of Kuku TV’s top 10 shows were translated, not Indian originals.
> Swiggy food-on-train orders grew 380% YoY in 2025.
> Fintech lenders served 23.3M consumers as of Dec 2024.
> 61% of fintech borrowers were under 30.
> 24% of fintech borrowers were rural.
> Vama doubled operating revenue to ₹19.5 crore in FY25 by selling e-pujas, e-darshans, and astrology consultations.
> As of June 2025, Sri Mandir had ~3.5M MAUs and ~55% six-month retention.
> Nearly 20% of Sri Mandir’s revenue came from the Indian diaspora.
> Seekho reportedly had 12 creators produce most of its library.
> Instamart had 4+ milk packets ordered every second in 2025.
> Instamart peak ordering hours are 7-11 AM and 4-7 PM.
> Gold orders on Instamart grew 400% on Dhanteras 2025.
Indian consumers adopt fast, pay late, borrow young, date through voice, watch fantasy, gift digitally, shop privately, and turn offline rituals into app categories.
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Career advice: Stay long enough to have an impact
I’m seeing many folks who exhibit the following pattern:
- Do a role for 12-18 months
- Change roles
- Repeat
They are “job optimizers”, constantly on the lookout for something better, almost from the moment they land in a new role. The purpose of their current role is to help them find their next role.
If this is you, stop. Take a breath. Embrace your current role. In fact, fall in love with it. Throw yourself into learning, building and having impact. You need at least 3-4 years at a company to have real impact. Have impact with measurable outcomes, and the next role will take care of itself. If you do great work at a good company, word will get out and you will never need to look for a job again. Plus, the joy and satisfaction of having meaningful impact is reward in and of itself.
Frank Slootman offers a few other reasons why employers see too many short-tenured jobs as a red flag.
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People are capable of far more than they think, on far shorter timelines. Problems expand to fill the time you give them.
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Building for Bharat means building for trust, language and real connections
A candid conversation by our founders @_bpst and @hvchhangani with @outlookbusiness what it took us to get there - youtube.com/watch?v=jNrqttK0…
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People ask me how has AI changed the design process?
Just look at @tryramp Product Designer job description
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starting a consumer company is basically opting into pain as a lifestyle.
you need this weird, almost contradictory stack which is taste + timing, future intuition + present execution, & culture fluency + product rigor. most ppl have like… one of these. maybe two if they’re lucky.
oh the worst thing is that there’s no clean feedback loop. ain’t no tidy dashboards telling you you’re right. it’s mostly vibes, weak signals, & ridiculously delayed validation if it comes at all (kinda like being in a toxic situationship). you’re effectively betting on something that doesn’t fully exist yet, using instincts you can’t quite articulate, in a market that will happily ignore you until it suddenly doesn’t.
this is one of the most asymmetric games you can play but also one of the least coherent while you’re in it. i think of it as playing a video game in hall of fame difficulty with no tutorial & half the UI missing.
Airbnb CEO @bchesky says more AI founders should be starting consumer businesses.
"I'm on the board of Y Combinator. 87% of companies are enterprise companies per batch."
"Enterprise is awesome... but the biggest prize is consumer. That is what's going to reach daily life for billions of people."
"Think about all the little parts of daily life that are kind of annoying. Pay attention to whoever's in your life and ask: 'How could their daily life be a little bit easier?'"
From his appearance on the show in January.
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Online safety can’t be an afterthought. Platforms need to build for trust.
With our #SurakshitConversations campaign, we’re reinforcing a simple belief:
Safety isn’t a feature. It’s the foundation.
Read more: impactonnet.com/more-from-im…
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Too much fun making this 🤣
Though on a serious note, this is exactly why AI needs full context of your life and strong memory. Without it, it can’t actually help you.
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I once again repeat this. India needs to fix its air quality ASAP. This should be our top priority. We do that and the average quality of life in our country will get a giant boost. I get we are a growing economy and infrastructure projects will create issues. But most of the pollution in our cities (50 %) is because of poor road infrastructure. So let us cut the crap and fix that. You want more and more Indians to come back and live here then give them better cities. Honestly the corruption has reduced because of digitisation. I can say that as a person who lives outside India for 5 and half months yearly. But we need to digitize even more. I hope policy makers inside and outside the government realise this and work towards it together.
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The thing you're afraid of giving up isn't a thing, rather it's vague optionality. Most common example is having kids. You hear a lot of people say how they won't be able to travel anymore, pursue passions, have time to do this and that
But if you look at a lot of their lives right now, the majority of their time is spent doing literally none of those things. They're not really giving up an existing life they hold dear, rather some nebulous idea of freedom they never tangibly benefited from
Same applies to any pursuit that forces you to step out of your comfort zone. Choosing to stay comfortable would actually be an even greater sacrifice because holding onto the past gives up all of the growth available to you in the future
At the end of the day, do what you want. But if you want something, it's found in the arena. Have the courage to step into it, and you'll probably find that having less time to sit will give you more time to live
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If you want to do something genuinely great, the first thing you have to do is ignore what most people think.
Public opinion is a kind of gravitational field: it pulls everyone toward the status quo, familiar and already accepted.
The more ambitious your idea, the stronger the force you’ll feel trying to keep you in line.
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NON REGRETTABLE > 5%
I don’t care how “cracked” your team is. If your team is bigger than 50 people and your annual non regrettable attrition is less than 5%, you’re not doing a good job of increasing talent density. This applies to every sub-team that’s > 50 people (including engineering).
For context, a very large and spectacularly performing public tech company has 10%+ non regrettable attrition in their engineering team, which is widely regarded as one of the best teams on the planet.
TLDR you need to raise the bar every year by weeding out the bottom 5%+. Period.